The New York City Police Department is, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “seventh largest army in the world.” He states, I have my own army…I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington [...]
An American soldier has allegedly killed sixteen Afghan civilians over the weekend, according to USA Today. The Taliban vowed revenge Monday for an “inhumane attack” in which an American soldier allegedly shot to death 16 civilians in southern Afghanistan and torched their bodies — an assault that has fueled anger still simmering after U.S. troops [...]
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012, LifeWay Christian Resources will host a web launch for it’s new curriculum line, The Gospel Project. From The Gospel Project website: On March 14th, get an inside look at The Gospel Project, LifeWay’s new gospel-centered Bible study resource, through this special webcast event. Trevin Wax, Managing Editor of The Gospel [...]
Those hearty souls around who’ve stayed through the various iterations of my blogs for the last six or seven years will not be surprised to find this new template and new name. With the new template I’m working through re-starting some of my ad network over the next little while. Not happy with Chitika yet, [...]
Jason Russell of Invisible Children was on ‘The Today Show’ this morning. In this short interview, he gives the rationale and plan of their activism, including KONY2012. A full response to their recent critics was posted on yesterday. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Ugandan terrorist Joseph Kony granted a video interview to a BBC reporter in 2006. This took place at in undisclosed location in the Congolese jungles. Hannah Arendt’s haunting phrase, “the banality of evil,” jumps to mind. “We are fighting for the 10 Commandment of God.”
The Invisible Children organization has released a new video aimed at finding and bringing to justice at top war criminal and destroyer of children, Uganda’s Joseph Kony. According to Wikipedia: Joseph Rao Kony (born 1961 in Odek, Uganda) is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a group engaged in [...]
Bryan Stevenson is a public-interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. He’s the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based group that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, confronting abuse of the [...]
The Orange County (CA) Register is reporting two massive lawsuits against Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana (d/b/a Trinity Broadcasting Network, the largest Christian broadcaster in the world), its International Christian Broadcasting arm, attorneys Davert & Loe (who do legal work for Trinity) and others. The lawsuits were filed by a granddaughter of Paul and [...]
That’s all the intro you need on this. Hard to find a worse performance of a bad song. Be sure to hang with it until the jam session. It’s right after the “guitar tech” comes out and tunes a guitar mid-performance. [HT: Jay Sanders]
In conversations about war it is hard for most Americans who have never been in war to envision anything other than the carnage of 9/11. Effects of a nuclear blast, from the smallest to the largest can be estimated using Alex Wellerstein’s NUKEMAP. Below are three screenshots from sample maps. The key for the blast [...]
